Transgender: Difference between revisions

 

===Mental health===

Many transgender people have mental health problems. A 2012 study of [[British]] transgender people found that 84% had considered [[suicide]]. 55% had been diagnosed with [[Depression (mood)|depression]]. 33% had not been diagnosed with depression, but thought that they had it in the past or at the time of the survey. 53% had [[Self-injury|self-harmed]]. 38% of had been diagnosed with [[anxiety]]. 31% were using [[antidepressant]]s and 44% had used them at some time.<ref name="TransMentalHealth2012">{{cite web|last1=McNeil|first1=Jay|last2=Bailey|first2=Louis|last3=Ellis|first3=Sonja|last4=Morton|first4=James|last5=Regan|first5=Maeve|author6=Scottish Transgender Alliance|author7=TREC|author8=Traverse: Crossing Boundaries in Research|author9=Sheffield Hallam University|author10=TransBareAll|title=Trans Mental Health Study 2012|url=http://www.gires.org.uk/assets/Medpro-Assets/trans_mh_study.pdf|website=.gires.org.uk|publisher=Multiple|access-date=20 December 2014|date=September 2012}}</ref>

A study of 164 [[Irish people|Irish]] transgender people found that 80% had considered suicide. 40% of those had attempted suicide at least once. 44% had self-harmed.<ref>{{cite press release|author1=Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI)|title=Press Release: New survey reveals nearly 80% of trans people have considered suicide|url=http://teni.ie/news-post.aspx?contentid=970|website=teni.ie|publisher=Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI)|access-date=20 December 2014|date=2 December 2013|archivedate=5 March 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305071910/http://teni.ie/news-post.aspx?contentid=970}}</ref> The reason for these high numbers is often seen as a result of discrimination and social problems.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Perez-Brumer|first1=Amaya|last2=Day|first2=Jack K.|last3=Russell|first3=Stephen T.|last4=Hatzenbuehler|first4=Mark L.|date=2017-09-01|title=Prevalence and Correlates of Suicidal Ideation Among Transgender Youth in California: Findings From a Representative, Population-Based Sample of High School Students|journal=Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry|volume=56|issue=9|pages=739–746|doi=10.1016/j.jaac.2017.06.010|pmid=28838578|pmc=5695881|issn=0890-8567}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Seelman|first=Kristie L.|date=2016-10-02|title=Transgender Adults' Access to College Bathrooms and Housing and the Relationship to Suicidality|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2016.1157998|journal=Journal of Homosexuality|volume=63|issue=10|pages=1378–1399|doi=10.1080/00918369.2016.1157998|issn=0091-8369|pmid=26914181|s2cid=23140708}}</ref><ref name="Bauer 525">{{Cite journal|last1=Bauer|first1=Greta R.|last2=Scheim|first2=Ayden I.|last3=Pyne|first3=Jake|last4=Travers|first4=Robb|last5=Hammond|first5=Rebecca|date=2015-06-02|title=Intervenable factors associated with suicide risk in transgender persons: a respondent driven sampling study in Ontario, Canada|url=https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1867-2|journal=BMC Public Health|volume=15|issue=1|pages=525|doi=10.1186/s12889-015-1867-2|pmid=26032733|pmc=4450977|issn=1471-2458}}</ref><ref name="Cohen-Kettenis 696–704">{{Cite journal|last1=Cohen-Kettenis|first1=Peggy T.|last2=Doreleijers|first2=Theo A. H.|last3=Wagenaar|first3=Eva C. F.|last4=Steensma|first4=Thomas D.|last5=McGuire|first5=Jenifer K.|last6=Vries|first6=Annelou L. C. de|date=2014-10-01|title=Young Adult Psychological Outcome After Puberty Suppression and Gender Reassignment|url=https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/134/4/696|journal=Pediatrics|language=en|volume=134|issue=4|pages=696–704|doi=10.1542/peds.2013-2958|issn=0031-4005|pmid=25201798|s2cid=18155489}}</ref> Transgender youth sometimes hurt, injure or kill themselves because they are bullied by other people, or because they feel very unhappy having their body become an adult body that they do not want because they feel it is the wrong body. Some people (usually [[Social conservative|social conservatives]]) say the rates of self-harm and suicide are high because transgender people are mentally ill.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thefederalist.com/2016/07/07/evidence-the-transgender-suicide-rate-isnt-due-to-discrimination/|title=The Federalist|last=Payne|first=Daniel|date=July 7, 2016|website=The Federalist}}</ref>

 

===Medical care===

 

===Disease versus difference===